Show HN: my weekend project - Bookmarks made serviceable

Like I said, I can't speak for everyone. I wouldn't be surprised if there were many different ways to approach bookmarks, some not even falling on a continuum between the two I described.

But nor would I be surprised if a lot of people took the search-oriented approach these days, as that's a common approach not just with bookmarks but with all kinds of content.

Personally, I very rarely take the intentional, curated approach. The example I gave, about sharing a collection of bookmarks relevant to local voters, is the only time in recent memory that I took the time to properly manage a set of bookmarks. And by "in recent memory", I mean in the last 5 years.

Yes, sorry for the quick criticism without constructiveness. My bad.

Play with this tool: http://colorschemedesigner.com/

Currently you have a color scheme based on similar brightnesses of very similar hues—green and blue are very close together on the color wheel, thus it's difficult to tell them apart and in some sense they "clash" with each other.

The grey you've chosen is also very similar in brightness, which makes the whole theme quite low contrast, and thus difficult to read.

Analogistic color schemes like this can work, but they need to be relatively high contrast so that there's enough of a difference in perceived color to make text readable and transitions more clear. And to prevent clashing, which is just generally perceived as unpleasing.

I'd go with your little memory-chip icon. Take the green off of that (#60B660) and the chip grey (#424242) and choose a contrasting accent color. You can go with a blue, but I wouldn't recommend it, and if you do I'd go with either very dark or very light used in places where it won't clash (such as maybe the top nav bar). Against the green, I'd use an orange or red or magenta in there, or just go with one main color and adjust brightnesses as needed (pretty failsafe).

Something like this would be similar to what you have, but with a better accent than blue (dark magenta) : http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/132637/Odd_but_trendy

Here's an analogistic color scheme that works due to the contrast and hue separation: http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/81885/Hymn_For_My_Soul

It's hard to explain how good color schemes are really created, other than by following the color wheel somewhat and your sense of aesthetic above all, but you can take any of these as a start for reference on what's "good." -- http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/most-loved/past-month/m... -- Yours isn't too bad, there's just something off about it due to the low-contrast high-similarity colors used. Cheers.

Will do that.

Its been a week but hopefully you still see this.

I notice now what you mention but still hard to discover on your own. Perhaps implementing the Windows double click type functionality (as a setting?) would be familiar to most (as in, most people use Windows) as people are used to one click to select and a quick double click to open. But this also seems to put more emphasis on editing / the interface than the actual functionality.